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Rough Crossings: Britain, Slaves & the American Revolution~Simon Schama~1st US E

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Condition
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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“1st US Edition in very good condition with tight binding, clean pages, and minimal shelf wear. The ...
Type
Academic History
Era
1700s
Special Attributes
Dust Jacket, 1st American Edition
Book Series
Historical
Region
Europe
Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Original Language
English
Subjects
History & Military
Edition
First Edition
ISBN
9780060539160
Category

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
006053916X
ISBN-13
9780060539160
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10038202677

Product Key Features

Book Title
Rough Crossings : Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Slavery, United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Africa / West, Black Studies (Global), United States / General, Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Author
Simon Schama
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
28.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2005-049504
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Simon Schama's Rough Crossings . . . brilliantly re-creates the histories of runaway slaves in and after the American revolution., "A master storyteller." -- Newsweek "If there's a better living writer of history than Simon Schama, I'd sure like to know who it is." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer ". . .plenty of gorgeous writing from this most elegant of stylists." -- Christian Science Monitor "Schama tells this complex story through a series of richly drawn, idiosyncratic individuals, from musical bureaucrats to rebellious slaves." -- San Diego Union-Tribune Simon Schama's Rough Crossings . . . brilliantly re-creates the histories of runaway slaves in and after the American revolution. -- Sunday Times (London) "A lively and accessible book." -- Newsday " Schama is back at his best -and historians don't come much better than that. -- Sunday Times (London), Schama tells this complex story through a series of richly drawn, idiosyncratic individuals, from musical bureaucrats to rebellious slaves.
Dewey Decimal
326.0973/09033
Synopsis
"The most dramatic account so far of the extraordinary expeience of slaves in and after the American Revolution. . . . Schama's gift for plunging us into the very center of the action makes reading an exhilarating and often moving experience."--Daily Telegraph If you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win? In response to a declaration by the last governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancpated, tens of thousands of blacks voted with feet, escaping to fight beside the British. Originally designed to break the plantations of the American South, this military strategy instead unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history. Told in the voices of the slaves and the white abolitionists who aided them, Simon Schama vividly details the odyssey of these escaped blacks, shedding light on an extraordinary chapter in America's birth., "Rough Crossings" turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win? In response to a declaration by the last governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves -- Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom -- escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp. This mass movement lasted as long as the war did, and a military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history. With powerfully vivid storytelling, Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture at the war's end, into inhospitable Nova Scotia, where thousands who had served the Crown were betrayed and, in a little-known hegira of the slave epic, sent across the broad, stormy ocean to Sierra Leone., Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win? In response to a declaration by the last governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves -- Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom -- escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British camp. This mass movement lasted as long as the war did, and a military strategy originally designed to break the plantations of the American South had unleashed one of the great exoduses in American history. With powerfully vivid storytelling, Schama details the odyssey of the escaped blacks through the fires of war and the terror of potential recapture at the war's end, into inhospitable Nova Scotia, where thousands who had served the Crown were betrayed and, in a little-known hegira of the slave epic, sent across the broad, stormy ocean to Sierra Leone.
LC Classification Number
E269.N3S33 2006

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